A plain English, easy-to-understand guide to Massachusetts and federal labor laws.

This book represents a compilation of all of the author's learning about teaching adults, from an almost fifty- year career in the field of adult education. It explores the art and science of training as a transformative learning process. It goes further than the development of understanding and skill, to actually help achieve a change in behaviour that reaches beyond the classroom experience. The purpose is to help learners critically reflect on their behaviour and underlying assumptions and provide an opportunity for these to be fully explored with others in a dialogic atmosphere. This manual outlines in detail the methods needed to create such an educational experience. It begins with life before training, including preprogram preparation, designing a training program, and planning for how to create a positive learning environment. It then explores life during training, including understanding the adult learner, dealing with difficult situations and behaviour, facilitating group dynamics in the classroom to create a transformative learning environment, managing your own personal leadership and facilitation style, and using instructional methods that work. To close, the book addresses life after training, including all forms of evaluation and ensuring enduring impact beyond the training program. Finally, personal anecdotes from the author's own experience are included throughout the book to enrich and illustrate points being made.

Virtually every organization needs HR personnel to hire, train, and assist employees. Often it is possible to get an entry-level job directly out of high school or after taking a short training program. Teens investigate the vital roles of staffing a company, training employees, learning HR policies and benefits, employee relations, and the types of jobs that are available in HR. Headhunting and recruitment firms and payroll processing firms are considered, as well as education requirements for the HR profession. Sidebars describe certification requirements, interviews with HR professionals, internships, compiling a resume, and tips for getting a first job.

An all-in-one reference to the important employment laws that every employer and HR pro needs to know.

The updated Third Edition of this manual is a comprehensive self-assessment review of ophthalmology and a valuable study aid for any ophthalmologist or ophthalmologist-in-training. It contains over 3,000 true/false, matching, and multiple-choice questions covering the entire field of ophthalmology, including the subspecialties. Answers are provided along with brief explanations and extensive references. Several hundred new questions have been added to this new edition, with significantly updated content and revised, expanded explanations. Two new chapters cover General Medicine and International Ophthalmology. This edition also includes more than 100 full-color photographs depicting ocular pathology and ophthalmic conditions.

The new Fourth Edition of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Review Manual for Ophthalmology provides a comprehensive self-assessment review and serves as a valuable study aid for any ophthalmologist or ophthalmologist-in-training. The text contains over 1,500 multiple-choice questions covering the entire field of ophthalmology, including all of its major subspecialties. Answers with explanations are provided for each question, and references are included at the end of each chapter. This edition includes more than 250 new full-color photographs and drawings depicting ocular pathology and ophthalmic conditions. All chapters have been updated with new questions to reflect the latest teaching in the field. A companion website features an interactive test bank with images. The test bank includes all 1,540 questions from the book plus over 300 unique questions for additional self-assessment practice.

ACSM's Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription was created as a complement to ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription and elaborates on all major aspects of preventative rehabilitation and fitness programs and the major position stands of the ACSM. The 7th edition provides information necessary to address the knowledge, skills, and abilities set forth in the new edition of Guidelines, and explains the science behind the exercise testing and prescription. ACSM's Resource Manual is a comprehensive resource for those working in the fitness and clinical exercise fields, as well as those in academic training.